WATCH: Is the Middelburg Rugby Club doomed like Belfast?
Middelburg’s proud sports facilities are turning into slums.
Bend it like Beckham?
No, it’s doomed like Belfast!
Belfast Rugby Club’s once beautiful clubhouse is in ruins.
And the Kees Taljaard Sports Complex in Middelburg is fast becoming a slum.
The difference between the two sports fields is that Belfast’s rugby club is on the outskirts of town.
The Kees Taljaard Sports Complex is in the middle of town, between Aerorand and the Dennesig and Kanonkop neighbourhoods, next to Steelcrest High School.
An unsightly slum that is already showing its terrible decay.
The Steve Tshwete Local Municipality has long since stopped maintenance.
The main pavilion is dirty and dilapidated.
Maintenance is no longer done.
The pavilions are full of bird droppings.
In one of the showers, water is leaking from a pipe, and all the toilets and changing rooms are flooded.
The Middelburg Rugby Club cannot train because the floodlights are not working.
There is no security to protect the facilities.
The water is running, the weeds are growing luxuriantly, and the decay is evident everywhere.
Fast on the way to a second Belfast.
A slum!
Bend it like Beckham?
No, doomed like Belfast.
